Alarming photos that emerged last May of 15 Chinese schoolchildren forced to scale an 800-meter rock face on unsecured rattan ladders on their journey to and from school, drew international attention to the local area’s poverty.

A window on today's China for Southeast Asia
Alarming photos that emerged last May of 15 Chinese schoolchildren forced to scale an 800-meter rock face on unsecured rattan ladders on their journey to and from school, drew international attention to the local area’s poverty.
My time spent as a Chinese language teacher at Bansomdejchaopraya Rajabhat University in Bangkok, Thailand’s capital, from May 2015 to May 2016.
As China has intensified policies of opening up over the past several decades, foreign students have increasingly found opportunity to pursue degree programs in China.
The school children from Atuleer village now have a safer way to get to class.